That’s what they’d like to make history look like.

I had a thought sparked by the last line or two in the RedState piece that Neo linked.

What if this is basically a pissing contest? Remember that the people doing these things are obsessed with status signals, and also obsessed with proving the illegitimacy of Trump’s Presidency. I would not be surprised, if you could get in the heart and mind of the Archivists, to learn the entire purpose of this raid is to *deny Trump material he would like to have to establish a Presidential Library*, and nothing more. They can’t ex post facto forbid it but they can put up tons of roadblocks and execute lawfare to try to stop it from happening.

First, government lawyers had already been through the boxes. If there was something in them that compromised grave danger to the security of the U. S., they would have taken them then, as they did with others.

They are down to the dregs. Another visit could have dealt with the remainder.

But, but, Garland is under pressure from the White House to GET Trump! So now we have this whiny civil servant, and it’s easy enough to get a DOJ lawyer to write a memo saying, “But the law!”

A proper memo would have included, “But courts have ruled over and over that the President can declassify whatever he wants, and if Trump says he did that, we have no evidence that he did not.”

That memo might also have included a passage that noted that when Obama had a dispute with the National Archives, his library was allowed to buy an indulgence.

Now we’re all used to Republicans being the dumb asses, and we forget that Democrats are dumb asses also, and what’s more, they cannot see straight for their hatred. The grownups like Barr and Mueller (yes, he was one, once) are gone, baby. The people who would have tossed that memo across the table and said, “Go back and start over, sunshine, and write a proper one,” they’re retired.

And the damage is done. No matter what happens from here on, Democrats will claim that Trump had nuclear codes at MAL. I knew that was bullshit from the start, because such things are not kept in White House file cabinets. They’re in a binder in that chart case that the military aide carries. And when Joe said, “So help me God,” Trump’s aide handed that case to Biden’s aide. And the codes were changed, probably within the hour. But Democrats will forever insist that Trump had them.

It’s like they were hitting themselves in the head with a hammer, suddenly noticed they were bleeding, and decided to keep on doing it even harder.

Mike

I agree that this is the motive for the raid and I agree that the lawsuit (which the DOJ federalized) was the trigger. I just hope Trump has copies hidden somewhere.

His defense was that his CiC, the President, was going against the interagency, his word, not mine.

Think about that and all the implications.

This is why we are here, period. Our government is an elitist, non-elected, gaggle of asshats who have been allowed to believe they, and only they, determine policy, law, trade, and war.

This predates Trump. Trump was just the lightening rod. Trump spoke Truth to Power.

The logical conclusion is more than these documents are at play.

If this is all about Crossfire Hurricane, Biden and the deep state have known this from the day President Trump got on Trump Force One.

So why did they wait until now? Maximum political damage? It seems the activity to get them back began sometime around the time Trump filed a $24 million federal lawsuit “alleging that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee launched a wide-ranging “unthinkable plot” in 2016 to smear him and his campaign as colluding with Russian officials.”